I Am One of You Forever

Fred Chappell. Louisiana State University Press, $17.95 (184pp) ISBN 978-0-8071-1410-0

Set in the 1940s, this series of interlinked yarns about life on a North Carolina ""scratch-ankle mountain farm'' is told from the point of view of Jess, age 11. PW called Chappell ``a gifted spinner of fictions that often verge on fantasy and the tall tale.'' (August)

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